Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 33, No. 386.
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    [1]    From: Mark Wolff 
           Subject: Re: [Humanist] 33.383: best examples? (59)

    [2]    From: Andrew Prescott 
           Subject: Re: [Humanist] 33.383: best examples? (15)


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        Date: 2019-11-08 13:58:02+00:00
        From: Mark Wolff 
        Subject: Re: [Humanist] 33.383: best examples?

Hi Willard. I recommend David Johnston’s ReRites project as an example of
computationally generated creative work. There is also a collection of essays
edited by Stephanie Strickland on the implications of Johnston’s work.

Johnston, David (Jhave). ReRites: Machine Learning Poetry Edited by a Human.
http://glia.ca/rerites/.

Strickland, Stephanie, ed. ReRites : Human + A.I. Poetry ; Raw Output : A.I.
Trained on Custom Poetry Corpus ; Responses : 8 Essays about Poetry and A.I.
Anteism Books, 2019.


> On Nov 8, 2019, at 1:09 AM, Humanist  wrote:
>
>                  Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 33, No. 383.
>            Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London
>                   Hosted by King's Digital Lab
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>        Date: 2019-11-07 14:17:04+00:00
>        From: Willard McCarty 
>        Subject: best examples?
>
> I'm looking for learned opinions as to the best, most convincing
> examples of computationally generated results that indicate an
> algorithmic or plausibly algorithmic basis for human artistic or
> otherwise cultural artefacts. Citations to articles or books that make
> the argument or attack it would be most welcome. Without surrendering
> (a favourite word over here these days...) to the dark side, what
> would you point to that you regard as genuinely interesting, i.e.
> that yields better questions about the human?
>
> Many thanks.
>
> Yours,
> WM
> --
> Willard McCarty (www.mccarty.org.uk/),
> Professor emeritus, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College
> London; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews
> (www.tandfonline.com/loi/yisr20) and Humanist (www.dhhumanist.org)

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        Date: 2019-11-08 09:11:11+00:00
        From: Andrew Prescott 
        Subject: Re: [Humanist] 33.383: best examples?

Dear Willard,

The example that immediately springs to mind is the work of Paul and
Danny Brown, exhibited at Watermans in 2015. The exhibition catalogue is
edited by Irini Papadimitriou and Bronac Ferran, 'Art That Makes Itself:
Brown & Son Purveyors of Digital Images since 1968'. An essay from the
catalogue by Jim Boulton was republished in Digital Archaeology (the
title echoing your concern about the dark side - this dark thing is
interesting - do we ever talk about the dark side of printing, although
we legitimately could?):

https://digital-archaeology.org/the-dark-side-of-the-digital-revolution/

Andrew



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